My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.
World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.
My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee to help make this proposal a reality.
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.
Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.
World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.
The world has already been saved from war. The question is how Christians can and should live in a world of war as a people who believe that war has been abolished.
After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.
I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.
My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the Christians do not live in cultural centers and work in culture-forging fields such as academia, publishing, media, entertain...
The dominant culture eats entire biomes. No, that is too generous, because eating implies a natural biological relationship. This culture doesn't just consume ecosystems, it obliterates them, it murders them, one after another. This culture is an eco...
We have become a more juvenile culture. We have become a childish "me, me, me" culture with fifteen-second attention spans. The global village that television was supposed to bring is less a village than a playground... Little attempt is made to pass...
That one American farmer can now feed himself and fifty-six other people may be, within the narrow view of the specialist, a triumph of technology; by no stretch of reason can it be considered a triumph of agriculture or of culture. It has been made ...
Preserving cultural diversity is considered a supreme virtue today, but the members of the diverse subcultures don't always see it that way. People have wants and needs, and when cultures rub shoulders, people in one culture are bound to notice when ...
